I wish to integrate the Gmail and Google Calendar web interfaces with Unity. This means several things.

1. In System Info > Default Applications set firefox 'https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox' as the mail command. This would obviously require me to somehow add a custom command to the list of Gnome3's default applications for Mail.


2. In System Info > Default Applications set firefox 'https://calendar.google.com' as the calendar command.


3. When clicking on the date in the upper right, and selecting "Add Event..." run firefox 'https://calendar.google.com'.


4. When clicking a mailto link somewhere open it in Gmail with the "To:" field set correctly. Perhaps something like firefox 'https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto'url=%s. Bonus points for also doing this when trying to mail a file from nautilus.

HINTS:

• I assume that (1) and (2) are achievable through setting some kind of .desktop files in ~.local/share/applications/ but the things I tried haven't worked.


• I also guess that (3) and (4) might require some editing of /desktop/gnome/url-handlers in gconf-editor.

EDIT: It seems that an elegant solution will finally be possible in 12.10 with integration of web apps.